Online tools for businesses

Business.gov.nl tools

• Choosing a Dutch legal structure - This tool helps you choose the legal structure best suited to your company.
• Company waste seperation tool - Find out which types of waste your company has to separate.
• Moving to the Netherlands as an entrepreneur - Depending on your country of origin and the duration of your stay, you need different permits and visas. Find out what applies to your situation.
• Startup Box - Find out about financing options for startups in the Netherlands.

Tools from other organisations

• CE Marking (Netherlands Enterprise Agency, in Dutch) - Online tool to help you comply with EU CE marking requirements.
• Cybersecurity scan (in Dutch) - Find out how cybersecure your company is, and what you can do to improve.
• Entrepreneur Check (Tax Administration, in Dutch) - Are you an entrepreneur for income tax and VAT purposes? The Tax Administration offers guidance.
• KVK Company Counter - allows you to check how many companies are located in a particular industry are located in an area, quickly and easily.
• KVK Name Check: check whether a business name has already been registered as a trade or company name, or as a trademark.
• Quick Scan eligibility opening an IBAN bank account (NVB) - Are you eligible for opening a Dutch business bank account? Find out.
• Search the Dutch Business Register (KVK, in Dutch) - The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce KVK manages the Business Register (Handelsregister), in which you can look up a company's details. To search the Business Register, fill in the name of the business you're looking for in the frame underneath 'Zoeken' that says 'Zoek op bedrijf, KVK-nummer of trefwoord', and press enter. All entries of companies bearing the name you entered will appear. You can also order several products from the Business Register, such as extracts and financial statements. Go to the KVK website to find and order several products.
• Short-stay visa calculator (EU) - to help you calculate how many days you can stay in the Netherlands if you have a Schengen short-stay visa.

Sustainability checkers

• Digital Environmental Annual Report Tool(E-mjv, in Dutch) - Get help filing your environmental annual report digitally.
• Energy Savings Act Checker (in Dutch) - Find out how you can comply with the Energy Savings Act.
• Substances Manager (Stoffenmanager Arboportaal, in Dutch) - Identify the risks involved in working with hazardous substances.

Tools for doing business abroad

• Access2Markets - This is an EU portal for exporters and importers. It provides detailed information specific to countries, products, taxes, procedures, and more.
• China business tool (Netherlands Enterprise Agency, in Dutch). This tool provides an overview and information about what makes doing business in China special, what you should pay extra attention to and what steps you can take to be well prepared in China.
• Exchange rate calculation tool for Customs import declaration (Dutch customs, in Dutch) - Convert the amount due in import levies from or into your own currency.
• Exportwijzer - (RVO, in Dutch) - Information about rules, regualations and subsidies for international trade. Also advice on export plans and and finding international business partners.
• Foreign Markets Databases - Find out about business opportunities abroad, using the latest information from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency.
• Intra Community Acquisition VAT Check Tool (Tax Administration, in Dutch) - When you buy goods from a business in another EU country, you may have to declare VAT on your return. Find out if this is so.
• Services to and from foreign countries tool (Tax Administration, in Dutch) - If you provide services abroad, or receive services from abroad, you may have to defer VAT. Find out what applies to you.
• Subsidy Guide (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) - All subsidies and programmes that are coordinated and executed by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). Filter by sector, type of subsidy, etc.